1. good idea i could probably butcher a molex connector together to use as a power connector but i would like something a little more robust like a deans connector from my rc boats.

2. i had not got as far as thinking about bling yet lol. but i do like the fan grille idea even if i didn't have to use a fan it would be a big enough opening for the heat to rise up and out the top of the case. the only thing that would worry me about that setup would be stuff falling inside the router thats why i was thinking about small holes.

The dual 12v rocker switch is to allow me to turn both the Netgear router and VIA board on and off independently and its blue so its looks cool.

The RGB leds will be going onto the front panel along with the switches.

some of these will be wired to the router to replace its onboard leds. they will replace the dual colour green and orange leds for 10mbit and 100mbit and power status with red and blue.

the rest will be used on the via board one for the power and hard drive status and 2 for the lan ports blue for lan connected and blinking red when its transmitting.

the fan will be mounted somewhere near the front and will just be powered from one of the via boards thermally controlled fan headers. i will be heat sinking the Negear router's CPU so that it should run a lot cooler than with nothing.

is there a firewall/router operating system that would run ok on my hardware but still has a gui with a bandwith monitor? i want to mount a 4.8" lcd monitor to the case so i can watch the internet speed, latency and system performance something like the Belkin N1.

for those wanting a little more power the HP Asus MOCA it will take a socket M core duo or core 2 duo and 3gb ddr2. and has a pcie 16x slot that will let you use a raid controller or network adapter. you also need a power supply adapter from ebay that costs $5

Less heat would mean that the atom would be more reliable because it has a lower TDP and it consumes less power. So the only thing that would turn me off from the atom is 4Gb limitation, otherwise a dual-core with hyper-threading and a 10 watt TDP isn't too shabby. So all in all the claim that Atoms are less reliable is crap. A very real consideration is speed but a G2020 is going to consume that much more power for that speed and for a gateway it really isn't necessary.

Less heat would mean that the atom would be more reliable because it has a lower TDP and it consumes less power. So the only thing that would turn me off from the atom is 4Gb limitation, otherwise a dual-core with hyper-threading and a 10 watt TDP isn't too shabby. So all in all the claim that Atoms are less reliable is crap. A very real consideration is speed but a G2020 is going to consume that much more power for that speed and for a gateway it really isn't necessary.

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i just mean that a powerful low TDP single core will give more predictable performance than trying to finely thread it so it runs over 4 virtual cores that will lag if one reaches 100% utilisation.

i just mean that a powerful low TDP single core will give more predictable performance than trying to finely thread it so it runs over 4 virtual cores that will lag if one reaches 100% utilisation.

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You'll never reach 100% on network traffic alone on an Atom. At work we have a 2.0Ghz Xeon dual-core skt771 and it barely even registers load during peek hours. That power really in unnecessary and 100% utilization isn't realistic under normal operation. So as a gateway and a gateway alone, it's a waste of power and money. Also I don't think there are any 1 core skt1155 chips.